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According to the sheriff there had been no lynching in Fauquier County within his memory, [11] and it was an absolute case of suicide. [ 12 ] Byrd became personally involved, writing and having his friends write the NAACP, insisting that there had not been a lynching. [ 1 ]
The Fauquier County Sheriff's Office is the primary law enforcement agency in Fauquier County, Virginia. Its headquarters are in Warrenton. [19] It supports the Warrenton Training Center, a CIA site in Warrenton. [citation needed] Warrenton and Remington have their own police departments. [20] [21]
It was operated as a jail until 1966, when the Fauquier Historical Society saved it from demolition and created a museum. The museum was known as The Old Jail Museum before it was rebranded as the Fauquier History Museum at the Old Jail in 2014. [3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. [1]
Fauquier County, Virginia, geography stubs (1 C, 31 P) Pages in category "Fauquier County, Virginia" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
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Police responded to reports of a person with a gun in a Marriott Hotel. Upon arrival, police reportedly determined they had probable cause to arrest Wohlwend for armed robbery. Police eventually found Wohlwend and claimed he refused to show officers his hands. Police then shot and killed him. A gun was recovered from the scene. [13] 2022-02-23
John Q. Marr was born on May 27, 1825, in Warrenton, Fauquier County, Virginia. He was the son of Catherine Inman Horner Marr (1797-1879) and John Marr, Esq. (1788-1848), who had married in 1816. The elder John Marr was the grandson of a French immigrant with the surname "La Mar."
Somerville is an unincorporated hamlet in Fauquier County, in the U.S. Commonwealth of Virginia. Somerville, two miles (3 km) west of the remote southwest corner of Marine Corps Base Quantico , can be said to lie at the center of a 225-square-mile (580 km 2 ) diamond-shaped area of mostly countryside bordered by routes US 15, 17, I-95, and SR ...